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2 Crônicas 12

BLIVRE · Chapter 12/36

1E quando Roboão havia confirmado o reino, deixou a lei do SENHOR, e com ele todo Israel.

2E no quinto ano do rei Roboão subiu Sisaque rei do Egito contra Jerusalém, (porquanto se haviam rebelado contra o SENHOR,)

3Com mil e duzentos carros, e com sessenta mil cavaleiros: mas o povo que vinha com ele do Egito, não tinha número; a saber, de líbios, suquitas, e etíopes.

4E tomou as cidades fortes de Judá, e chegou até Jerusalém.

5Então veio Semaías profeta a Roboão e aos príncipes de Judá, que estavam reunidos em Jerusalém por causa de Sisaque, e disse-lhes: Assim disse o SENHOR: Vós me deixastes, e eu também vos deixei em mãos de Sisaque.

6E os príncipes de Israel e o rei se humilharam, e disseram: Justo é o SENHOR.

7E quando viu o SENHOR que se haviam humilhado, foi palavra do SENHOR a Semaías, dizendo: Humilharam-se; não os destruirei; antes os salvarei em breve, e não se derramará minha ira contra Jerusalém por mão de Sisaque.

8Porém serão seus servos; para que saibam que é servir a mim, e servir aos reinos das nações.

9Subiu, pois, Sisaque, rei do Egito a Jerusalém, e tomou os tesouros da casa do SENHOR, e os tesouros da casa do rei; tudo o levou: e tomou os paveses de ouro que Salomão havia feito.

10E em lugar deles fez o rei Roboão paveses de bronze, e entregou-os em mãos dos chefes da guarda, os quais guardavam a entrada da casa do rei.

11E quando o rei ia à casa do SENHOR, vinham os da guarda, e traziam-nos, e depois os voltavam à câmara da guarda.

12E quando ele se humilhou, a ira do SENHOR se separou dele, para não destruí-lo de todo: e também em Judá as coisas foram bem.

13Fortificou-se, pois Roboão, e reinou em Jerusalém: e era Roboão de quarenta e um anos quando começou a reinar, e dezessete anos reinou em Jerusalém, cidade que escolheu o SENHOR de todas as tribos de Israel, para pôr nela seu nome. E o nome de sua mãe foi Naamá, amonita.

14E fez o mal, porque não dispôs seu coração para buscar ao SENHOR.

15E as coisas de Roboão, primeiras e últimas, não estão escritas nos livros de Semaías profeta e de Ido vidente, no registro das linhagens? E entre Roboão e Jeroboão havia perpétua guerra.

16E descansou Roboão com seus pais, e foi sepultado na cidade de Davi: e reinou em seu lugar Abias seu filho.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

After growing strong, Rehoboam and the people of Judah abandon the law of the LORD, and as a consequence King Shishak of Egypt invades Judah and plunders the treasures of the temple and the palace. When the people humble themselves before the prophetic message of Shemaiah, God moderates the punishment, preventing total destruction.

Explanation

This chapter establishes a pattern that will repeat many times throughout 2 Chronicles: prosperity leads to arrogance, arrogance leads to the abandonment of faith, the abandonment of faith brings judgment through foreign invaders, but genuine humility, even if late, can soften the consequences of judgment. A powerful symbolic detail is that Rehoboam replaces the stolen gold shields with bronze ones — a clear visual metaphor for the spiritual and material decline of the kingdom, from something precious to something ordinary, under leadership that no longer prioritized seeking God as his grandfather David had done.

Fun facts

  • The Egyptian pharaoh Shishak (also called Sheshonq I) is a historically confirmed figure through Egyptian inscriptions that record his military campaign against cities of Israel and Judah, offering a rare direct archaeological confirmation of biblical events.
  • The replacement of the gold shields with bronze shields, kept by the palace guards, is often used as a spiritual metaphor to describe any situation in which something genuine and valuable is replaced by an inferior imitation.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. 2 Crônicas 12:1As soon as Rehoboam’s kingdom becomes settled and strong, he and all the people abandon the law of the Lord — success becomes an occasion for spiritual carelessness.
  2. 2 Crônicas 12:2Pharaoh Shishak’s invasion of Jerusalem, five years after Rehoboam takes the throne, is a real historical event, recorded even in Egyptian inscriptions from the time — it’s not just an isolated biblical tradition. The text ties the invasion directly to the kingdom’s having abandoned faithfulness to the Lord.
  3. 2 Crônicas 12:3Shishak’s Egyptian army is described as enormous: twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and a countless multitude of Lubims, Sukkiims, and Ethiopians.
  4. 2 Crônicas 12:4Shishak conquers the fortified cities of Judah — the very ones Rehoboam had just reinforced in the previous chapter — and reaches all the way to Jerusalem.
  5. 2 Crônicas 12:5The prophet Shemaiah confronts Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah gathered in Jerusalem with a direct message: since they abandoned God, He has also abandoned them into the hand of Shishak.
  6. 2 Crônicas 12:6Faced with this warning, the leaders of Judah and the king himself humble themselves and acknowledge, “The Lord is righteous” — accepting the blame without contesting it.
  7. 2 Crônicas 12:7Seeing this humility, God changes the course of the message to Shemaiah: He will not destroy the people, He will only grant some relief so that His wrath does not fall on Jerusalem with full force through Shishak.
  8. 2 Crônicas 12:8Since the people humble themselves at the prophet’s warning, God does not let Jerusalem be destroyed, but He still allows them to become Shishak’s servants — “that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.” It’s a reduced punishment, but not a cancelled one, used as a lesson.
  9. 2 Crônicas 12:9Shishak plunders the treasures of the temple and the palace, carrying off even the famous gold shields Solomon had made.
  10. 2 Crônicas 12:10In place of the stolen gold shields, Rehoboam has bronze shields made, handed over to the commanders of the guard stationed at the entrance of the palace.
  11. 2 Crônicas 12:11Every time the king entered the temple, the guard would carry these bronze shields and then put them back in the guardroom — a substitute that was visibly poorer than the original.
  12. 2 Crônicas 12:12Because Rehoboam humbled himself, God’s wrath turns away before destroying him completely — and the text adds that there were still good things in Judah at that moment.
  13. 2 Crônicas 12:13Rehoboam establishes himself on the throne in Jerusalem, reigning seventeen years starting at forty-one years old; his mother, Naamah, was an Ammonitess, a detail the Chronicler always records about every king.
  14. 2 Crônicas 12:14The Chronicler’s verdict on Rehoboam is direct: he did evil, because he never prepared his heart to truly seek the Lord.
  15. 2 Crônicas 12:15The summary of Rehoboam’s reign points to the records of the prophets Shemaiah and Iddo, and mentions that the wars between him and Jeroboam never stopped as long as the two of them lived.
  16. 2 Crônicas 12:16Rehoboam dies and is buried in the city of David; his son Abijah takes the throne in his place, opening the next chapter.

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